[ExI] evolution problems

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Sep 14, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Henrik Ohrstrom <henrik.ohrstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bats and moths have evolved together, probably starting with normal sounds for both and escalation and arms race as the logical result.
> If it was a case of intelligent design we would se the usual signs of a design committee, inside out retinas, brains rotated and mirrored, air and fluid pathways crossing each other and so on. 
> /Henrik

I was going to say something like that: bat
ancestors likely didn’t start off with the highly developed echo-location, but had to coevolve this with prey (and others) that we’re trying to avoid being a meal. It was likely an arms race rather than the moths being plunked down with already sophisticated bats...

However, this is simply a “just so” story. To figure out how the moths evolved their countermeasures, one would have to actually look at and analyze what data there is on moth evolution.

Regards,

Dan
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